HMS Amethyst

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Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Amethyst:

• HMS Amethyst (1793) was originally a French 36-gun fifth-rate frigate called Perle, captured in 1793, wrecked in 1795 near Alderney.
• HMS Amethyst (1799), launched in 1799, was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate, wrecked in Plymouth Sound in 1811.
• HMS Amethyst (1844), launched in 1844, was a Spartan-class 26-gun sixth-rate frigate, sold in 1869.
• HMS Amethyst (1871), launched in 1871, was the lead ship of her class of wooden screw corvettes. Sold in 1887.
• HMS Amethyst (1903), launched in 1903, was a Topaze-class third-class cruiser. In World War I, the flagship of Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, she fought at the battles of Heligoland Bight and Dardanelles. She was scrapped in 1920.
• HMS Amethyst (T12), commissioned in 1935, was an anti-submarine trawler. She was sunk by a mine on 24 November 1940.
• HMS Amethyst (U16/F116), launched in 1943, was built as a modified Black Swan-class sloop, and served World War II, pennant number U16. Post-war she was modified and redesignated as a frigate, and renumbered F116. In 1949 she came under fire from the Chinese People's Liberation Army on the Yangtze River, an event immortalised in the film The Yangtse Incident. Broken up in 1957.

In addition the Royal Navy's Bridge Simulator in the 1990s at HMS Dryad was officially named Amethyst in honour of HMS Amethyst (U16/F116).

[edit] References

• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.